brillantiner

French

Etymology

From brillantine +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.ne/

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Verb

brillantiner

1. to brilliantine (to apply brilliantine to the hair)

Conjugation

Conjugation of brillantiner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	brillantiner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	brillantinant /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		brillantiné /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	brillantine /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	brillantines /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	brillantine /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	brillantinons /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɔ̃/	brillantinez /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.ne/	brillantinent /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/
	imperfect	brillantinais /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɛ/	brillantinais /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɛ/	brillantinait /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɛ/	brillantinions /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.njɔ̃/	brillantiniez /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nje/	brillantinaient /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɛ/
	past historic2	brillantinai /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.ne/	brillantinas /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.na/	brillantina /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.na/	brillantinâmes /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nam/	brillantinâtes /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nat/	brillantinèrent /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɛʁ/
	future	brillantinerai /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁe/	brillantineras /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁa/	brillantinera /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁa/	brillantinerons /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁɔ̃/	brillantinerez /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁe/	brillantineront /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	brillantinerais /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁɛ/	brillantinerais /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁɛ/	brillantinerait /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁɛ/	brillantinerions /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	brillantineriez /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nə.ʁje/	brillantineraient /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	brillantine /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	brillantines /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	brillantine /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	brillantinions /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.njɔ̃/	brillantiniez /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nje/	brillantinent /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/
	imperfect2	brillantinasse /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nas/	brillantinasses /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nas/	brillantinât /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.na/	brillantinassions /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.na.sjɔ̃/	brillantinassiez /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.na.sje/	brillantinassent /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	brillantine /bʁi.jɑ̃.tin/	—	brillantinons /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.nɔ̃/	brillantinez /bʁi.jɑ̃.ti.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “brillantiner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.